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If Obama doesn't pull a Bill Clinton tonight, or if he tells just a single untruth he's toasted.
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"So 11 Extincts species?
They're over 1.4 Million species in the world! And we discover more everyday!"
Humans. 1 Species. Earth won't miss us when we fuck ourselves out of existence.
I don't hug trees. I hug people. I'd like to leave a world for my kids, thanks.
You may fuck off now McWoozy. You have the intellect of a fucking ant.
- Yeah, he's pretty dense.Mimio
- Nice attack. Typical uneducated loser. I see you're a yes men.********
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Roland was a warrior from the land of the midnight sun
With his Thompson gun for hire, fighting to be done
The deal was made in Denmark on a dark and stormy day
So he set out for Biafra to join the bloody frayThrough '66 and 7, they fought the Congo war
With their fingers on their triggers, knee deep in gore
For days and nights they battled the Bantu to their knees
They killed to earn their living and to help out the CongoleseRoland the Thompson gunner
Roland the Thompson gunnerHis comrades fought beside him, Van Owen and the rest
But of all the Thompson gunners, Roland was the best
So the CIA decided they wanted Roland dead
That son of a bitch Van Owen blew off Roland's headRoland the headless Thompson gunner
Time, time, time, for another peaceful war
Norway's bravest son
But time stands still for Roland, 'til he evens up the score
They can still see his headless body stalking through the night
In the muzzle flash of Roland's Thompson gun
In the muzzle flash of Roland's Thompson gunRoland searched the continent for the man who'd done him in
He found him in Mombassa, in a barroom drinking gin
Roland aimed his Thompson gun, he didn't say a word
But he blew Van Owen's body from there to JohannesburgRoland the headless Thompson gunner
Roland the headless Thompson gunner
Roland the headless Thompson gunner, talking about the man
Roland the headless Thompson gunnerThe eternal Thompson gunner
Still wand'ring through the night
Now it's ten years later, but he still keeps up the fight
In Ireland, in Lebanon, in Palestine and Berkeley
Patty Hearst heard the burst
Of Roland's Thompson gun and bought it
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While supplies last...
- It's odd to contemplate what you think you are accomplishing with these.DrBombay
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- It's funny that everyone with a protest sign is old and white...EightyDeuce
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You fraking fraks are hilarious.
You wannabe artists are so wannabe gay you don't even realize when you're sticking up for communism you fraking idiots. A lot of you are supporting the same evil you are supposedly against.
How is that job market in france and the EU working out? How are those blue collar and advertising jobs working out for you in the states?
Art and or design along with LIFE is about freedom of choice to do and think as you please you fraking fraks; and you id's come onto this site and talk about how you want to shut people up, how they're idiots because they don't believe the same lies you do, how people should be killed, murdered or raped because of dissenting opinion.
90% of you fraks like bonseff just regurgitate exactly what they heard on MSNBC. WORD FOR WORD. No thought, no criticism, they just repeat it word for word. YOU'RE A REPEATER and I AM REPEATING THAT.
You fucking fraks are highly uneducated and I will continue to call out every single one of you.
Your King Politicians lie straight to your face and you still support them and eat it up. Who are the idiots now? People are lying to your face and you believe it! People are telling you they're lying to your face and you get some crazy psycho reaction.
Why don't one or two of you smarties pick up a book once in awhile.
I would suggest the book 'propaganda' which talks about how TV is used as a form of mind control to foment public opinion.
So who are the dense ones now?
- But republicans never catch this response from you... That is the interesting part.DrBombay
- Who said that? I think his banter is on spot!********
- Judging from your work McWoozy, you shouldn't be calling anyone in here a wannabe artist.EightyDeuce
- Who said what?DrBombay
- Dad?fooler2
- fuck you and your book club.BonSeff
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He's Done Everything Wrong
by Mort Zuckerman
Editor In Chief U.S. News & World Report
January 19, 2010 | 11:19pm
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Obama punted on the economy and reversed the fortunes of the Democrats in 365 days.He’s misjudged the character of the country in his whole approach. There’s the saying, “It’s the economy, stupid.” He didn’t get it. He was determined somehow or other to adopt a whole new agenda. He didn’t address the main issue.
This health-care plan is going to be a fiscal disaster for the country. Most of the country wanted to deal with costs, not expansion of coverage. This is going to raise costs dramatically.
In the campaign, he said he would change politics as usual. He did change them. It’s now worse than it was. I’ve now seen the kind of buying off of politicians that I’ve never seen before. It’s politically corrupt and it’s starting at the top. It’s revolting.
Five states got deals on health care—one of them was Harry Reid’s. It is disgusting, just disgusting. I’ve never seen anything like it. The unions just got them to drop the tax on Cadillac plans in the health-care bill. It was pure union politics. They just went along with it. It’s a bizarre form of political corruption. It’s bribery. I suppose they could say, that’s the system. He was supposed to change it or try to change it.
Even that is not the worst part. He could have said, “I know. I promised these things, but let me try to do them one at a time.” You want to deal with health care? Fine. Issue No. 1 with health care was the cost. You know I think it was 37 percent or 33 who were worried about coverage. Fine, I wrote an editorial to this effect. Focus on cost-containment first. But he’s trying to boil the ocean, trying to do too much. This is not leadership.• More Daily Beast opinion on Obama’s first year:
Obama’s ability to connect with voters is what launched him. But what has surprised me is how he has failed to connect with the voters since he’s been in office. He’s had so much overexposure. You have to be selective. He was doing five Sunday shows. How many press conferences? And now people stop listening to him. The fact is he had 49.5 million listeners to first speech on the economy. On Medicare, he had 24 million. He’s lost his audience. He has not rallied public opinion. He has plunged in the polls more than any other political figure since we’ve been using polls. He’s done everything wrong. Well, not everything, but the major things.I don’t consider it a triumph. I consider it a disaster.
One business leader said to me, “In the Clinton administration, the policy people were at the center, and the political people were on the sideline. In the Obama administration, the political people are at the center, and the policy people are on the sidelines.”I’m very disappointed. We endorsed him. I voted for him. I supported him publicly and privately.
I hope there are changes. I think he’s already laid in huge problems for the country. The fiscal program was a disaster. You have to get the money as quickly as possible into the economy. They didn’t do that. By end of the first year, only one-third of the money was spent. Why is that?He should have jammed a stimulus plan into Congress and said, “This is it. No changes. Don’t give me that bullshit. We have a national emergency.” Instead they turned it over to Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi who can run circles around him.
It’s very sad. It’s really sad.
He’s improved America’s image in the world. He absolutely did. But you have to translate that into something. Let me tell you what a major leader said to me recently. “We are convinced,” he said, “that he is not strong enough to confront his enemy. We are concerned,” he said “that he is not strong to support his friends.”
The political leadership of the world is very, very dismayed. He better turn it around. The Democrats are going to get killed in this election. Looks what’s happening in Massachusetts.
It’s really interesting because he had brilliant, brilliant political instincts during the campaign. I don’t know what has happened to them. His appointments present somebody who has a lot to learn about how government works. He better get some very talented businesspeople who know how to implement things. It’s unbelievable. Everybody says so. You can’t believe how dismayed people are. That’s why he’s plunging in the polls.
I can’t predict things two years from now, but if he continues on the downward spiral he is on, he won’t be reelected. In the meantime, the Democrats have recreated the Republican Party. And when I say Democrats, I mean the Obama administration. In the generic vote, the Democrats were ahead something like 52 to 30. They are now behind the Republicans 48 to 44 in the last poll. Nobody has ever seen anything that dramatic.
Mortimer B. Zuckerman is chairman and editor in chief of U.S News & World Report and publisher of the New York daily News. He is also the co-founder and chairman of Boston Properties. He is a trustee of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Washington Institute for Near East Studies, and the International Institute of Strategic Studies
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^"How is that job market in france and the EU working out? How are those blue collar and advertising jobs working out for you in the states"
MISERABLY FROM THE LOOKS OF IT! Spain, Portugal, Ireland and Greece are all in serious debt and have high unemployment, but of course Obama was their answer.
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Conservative members of the Republican National Committee have submitted two different proposals at their Winter Meeting this week that would prevent party money from being given to GOP candidates who are deemed too moderate.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn…
LMAO
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I would say that the main reason for the Health Care reform derailment was appeasement of the right. Plain old partisan politics. If you recall democrats had a fairly spartan, unobligated proposal for legislation before it attracted all this heat for being too "socialist."
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57% percent were against a nationalized system. 77% of Americans were for a public option.(Rasmussen, SurveyUSA, Gallup)
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49% of people are so desperate for reform they support the bill in it's current incarnation: http://www.gallup.com/poll/12503…
- In fact it's steadily ticking up towards public acceptance. In another year we could have a public option.Mimio
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Paulson: 25% unemployment rate without AIG bailout
http://www.marketwatch.com/story…